The notion that it will be any satisfaction to the
Unionist Party or to the country when revolutionary acts have been committed for Unionists to be able to lay the blame entirely on the other side is childish. When great issues are involved the country never looks at matters from this narrow point of view. It will make the Unionists, quite as much their opponents, responsible for what has happened. The attitude of the country in regard to the throwing out of the Budget by the Lords affords an example of what we mean. For areumentae tire purposes and in order to make it quite clear to the country what is being done, we hold that it was right for Lord Lansdowne and his colleagues to produce and pass their amendments. Meantime it is the duty of every patriotic and far-seeing Unionist to use his influence to the utmost to see that the amendments are not insisted on in the face of the Government's refusal to accept them, and the Radical Party thereby given the opportunity to take revolutionary action of a kind which, even if unwelcome to moderate Liberals, is most welcome to the extremists in the Party and Cabinet. This is a fact, though one 'usually ignored by Unionists, who are inclined to fancy that the Radical Party is most loth to destroy the peerage and all that it stands for by a creation of peers. On the contrary, there are plenty of Radicals who view the prospect of destroying the aristccr•atic element in the Constitution with unconcealed delight,
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